Consumers who ease their consciences by eating hake instead of endangered, fish species need to think again. Fishing industry experts warn that unless drastic action is taken hake will soon be the size of a sardine — if you can find it at all. Over-exploitation of hake, mostly by fishing trawlers, has seen catch rates reduced by about 30% in the past few years.
The attractive three-storey flats, with their landscaped gardens and paved walkways, stand empty almost two months after completion. They stand in stark relief against thousands of tin and wood shanties. The strange contrast on view in Cape Town’s Joe Slovo settlement epitomises the controversy that has beset the N2 Gateway housing project.
South Africa’s 2010 head, Danny Jordaan, has called for dramatic changes to the way the game is run, if the continent hopes to host its first World Cup successfully. Jordaan was unequivocal about what African teams need to do to perform better in South Africa in 2010: ”Improvements are needed in all areas.”
The stranded Safmarine Agulhas moved a few metres in a salvage attempt at high tide on Thursday afternoon, said the National Ports Authority (NPA). Two tugs attached to the bow and stern of the 16 800-tonne container ship would keep a steady line overnight.
Some HIV/Aids and tuberculosis (TB) patients in the Eastern Cape are refusing treatment because they fear losing their disability grants, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) in the province said on Thursday. TAC coordinator Philip Mokoena said the number of people refusing treatment is growing.
The pension-funds adjudicator wants answers on how certain provisions in the Income-Tax Act affect approved retirement annuity-fund rules. He has given the Competition Commission and the South African Revenue Service until July 26 to respond to his questions in writing.
Western Cape education minister Cameron Dugmore has suspended a Delft school principal after his arrest on charges of indecent assault and possession of child pornography, media reports said on Thursday. Three parents laid indecent assault charges against the 57-year-old man who appeared in court on Wednesday.
The illegal automatic firearms wielded by criminals in Sunday’s Jeppestown, Johannesburg, shootout have thrown a frightening spotlight on the hundreds of thousands of illegal weapons in circulation in South Africa. Although the South African Police Service has recovered more illegal firearms than those lost or stolen in the past six years, researchers believe 95% of the country’s illegal weapons remain at large.
The Directorate of Special Operations — the ”Scorpions” — will remain within the National Prosecuting Authority, which will continue to report to the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development. But political oversight of what the Scorpions’ ”law enforcement responsibilities” will include, moves to the Minister of Safety and Security.
Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Johnny de Lange is hard-working, thorough, clever and dedicated — but has a large ego and a short temper. So say those who have worked with him. De Lange’s early life appears to have been fairly standard for a small-town Afrikaner male.